Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-unix!husc6!seismo!nbires!isis!dragheb From: dragheb@isis.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: IBM, this is 4 u Message-ID: <1741@isis.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 13:12:19 EST Article-I.D.: isis.1741 Posted: Fri Apr 3 13:12:19 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Apr-87 11:17:06 EST Reply-To: dragheb@isis.UUCP (Darius "OPRDRT" Ragheb) Distribution: world Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver Lines: 59 "No," I say, "NO!" Let the community of computer users stop worshiping their false god, IBM. I just read the announcement in Mod.computers.ibm-pc and have seen the press releases on IBM's new line of machines (the PS/2 etc.). What's the matter, Big Blue? Can't compete? Never could. By accident (mainly, you put your name on it) you helped create a standard (albeit a shitty one) with your PC. Now that you see you no longer lead in the races, you decide to switch! HAHAHA I laugh. Maybe the 3.5" disks were destined to become the new standard, but making that change with these new machines was really rotten. 80386 computers. Again, look at it: two models at 2 speeds, with minimum memory configurations, small drives, and high prices ... maybe you could learn something from Kaypro and Compaq. Totally new bus architecture. Why? Definitely NOT to improve the field ... it was to try and confuse the competitors. New Video adapters ... try and get it right this time ..... New operating system .... lets wait and see. I sincerly hope you don't make it on this one! With your last machine you got every business man in America to buy the machine because it had your name on it. This time, I hope these people realize that it is a cheap trick. If you had set out to do something useful (like improve the state of technology) that is one thing, but you are effectively a monopoly: you don't compete, you crush your opponent with the weight of your name! Well, we live in a capitalistic society, and since you are not legally a monoply, I guess you can do what you want. Well, heck, so can Oral Roberts ... its the people who send him (and you) money that I feel sorry for. Poor suckers. Maybe you can back up your new machines with some decent documentation ... whats that you say? You don't know what the word means ... maybe I will buy you a dictionary and send it to you ... no, on second thoughts, I won't. You see, you once suckered me into buying an IBM PC (yeah, you remember, the one with belt driven disk drives (at the time the rest of the world was busy moving forward in technology)) and whenever I had a hardware question, you acted like i didn't exist ... it's too bad that I can't ignore you: you STINK. Oh, hey, IBM, maybe you will release a brand spanking new language with your new computers: maybe Cobol, or PL/1... yeah, that's it. PL/1. That's a great idea. -- Do it in C. If you can't do it in C, do it in Assembly. If you can't do it in Assembly, it's not worth doing!!! Darius Ragheb isis!dragheb | dragheb@isis.cs.du.edu